James, Mia, Sirius, Remus, Keely, Peter, Meg, and Lily stayed during the Christmas holidays. To Sirius’ chagrin, Regulas stayed during the holidays too. He had been complete torture to the group.
“If he ever calls me a filthy blood traitor one more time, I’ll kill him!” Sirius said one day to the group in the almost empty Gryffindor common room.
“You need to control your anger.” said Meg as she performed yoga behind the couch, “You could try yoga, or maybe even meditating.”
“Thanks, but no thanks.” said Sirius.
‘Just think about how close we are to the end of the holidays,” said Keely as she and Remus played wizards chess, “Once the holidays are over, Regulas will bother other people and be with his friends.”
“That’s not going to change anything.” said Sirius, “I gotta deal with him at home too and I can hardly sneak out of the house because my folks are insane and Kreacher is well. He’ll rat me out”
“Kreacher does seem like a little bugger.” said Mia as she drew on her sketchpad.

The group ate their Christmas dinner at the Gryffindor table with Remus’ sister Sylvia and her friends. They didn’t mind younger kids hanging out with them. Mia repeatedly touched her new locket whenever she had the chance.
“Why do you keep touching your new locket?” asked Meg.
“I got it from my parents; I just miss them that’s all. I should probably send them a letter and tell them how things are doing.”
“How did they react when you told them about you and Severus?” asked Lily.
When Mia remained silent, Lily immediately understood. “You didn’t tell them?”
“Well, James’ over protectiveness had to have come from somewhere.” said Mia, “My mother will probably say that I’m way to young to be somebody’s girlfriend and my dad will seriously freak out and set our dog on Sev like a certain somebody did to him a few years ago.” Everybody looked at James.
“I was a kid!” he said.
“You’re joking, Potter!” Mia turned around in her seat and saw Regulas with a smirk on his face, “You mean you and Snape are actually together?”
“Shove off Reggie.” said Sirius.
“I told you never to call me that!” he said, his cheeks turning pink.
“Regulas, don’t you have to be a git somewhere else?” asked Lily.
Regulas pretended to think, “No, I don’t think so Mudblood.”
Mia quickly stood up, glaring at Regulas. “You better take that back.”
“Evans is a filthy mudblood.” Regulas said slowly and clearly. Mia raised her fist and Regulas ran out of the Great Hall. Mia followed him, hot on his trail. Mia chased him through the corridors until she finally pounced on him and punched him in the face. Regulas put his hands up to his bloody nose and yelled out in pain.
“Be grateful,” said Mia, “I was actually thinking about breaking your arm.”
“POTTER!”
Mia got off of Regulas and saw Professor McGonagle looking at her in horror.
“I’ve never seen such behavior! Shame on you, Potter. 50 points from Gryffindor and a week of detention in my office starting tomorrow night!”